M/S Modi and Nawaz: The Ancient Egyptians used 'Inclined Planes' For Building the Pyramids!

Politics today means and understands the difference between those politicians and some statesmen.

The recent thumping electoral-victory of Mr. Narendra Modi, his invitation to Mr. Nawaz Shariff to attend the oath taking ceremony and the most positive response by Mr.Nawaz, are indeed indicative signs of statemenship and goodwill.

Both men have won heavy mandates of their countries' people to be the respective Prime Ministers. Both of them are knowledgeable and experienced politicians fully aware of the socio-economic problems of their teeming millions. They also know that tension, friction, conflict, anger, pride, or arrogance need to be cooled down. These are encoraging signs indeed.

Mr. Shariff visiting India, attending the swearing ceremony on 26th May, holding separate meetings on 27th May; and on top of it the Indian President calling him 'a man of peace' are definitely the gestures leading to conflict resolution.

1. Peaceful Co-existence vs Warmongering:-

Warmongering means killings of people, wasting natural resources on purchases of the laterst state-of art war machines at the cost of the poor people's tax money and causing povert/hunger/miseries to them.

Where as peaceful-co-existence means negotiations based on sincerity of purpose, frienship, and on equal terms; both sides willing to give and take. And here wisdom/statesmenship prevails

2. The Logic and Common-sense:-

Look! they now have a clear choice to be made keeping in mind the old saying: ' A place for everything, and everything in it's place'. Conferring, discussing, bargaining to reach peaceful settlement of problems are akin to the choice of doing the soft act for a long time, or tough work for a short time. During negotiations may be you have to express the tension in terms of the many facets required to balance those erritants of gravity and friction.

3. The Human factors to be managed:-

For a good musician, or a dancing troupe, a pivotal factor is rhythm. A lion likes preying on the small animals, but that is in the jungle. Every human being is borne with the nature to want to be liked by others. Shakespeare said everybody likes to call his crow his swan. And even a fool knows that his/her wealth/ money, powe , or pelf can slip away anytime. So, make hey while the sun shines and

4' Just try to pause, think and reflect:on "The Inclined Plane' phylosophy"!

Towards understanding the philosophic analogy of Negotiations vs 'The Inclined Planes' you need not to be a master of the science of Physics. Our message is clear and eloquent enough. The ancient Egyptians of 2500 BC are on record having built their own earth-ramps for lifting up heavy stones for building the Pyramids. The first staircase akin to the 'Inclined Planes' was found convenient for moving up than if one had to jump. Even, the animals are naturally bound to using 'The Inclined Planes' for negotiating a path to go up hills. Logs are also found to be used as rollers to reduce friction (tension in a sense). So, why not to treat this simple logic towards conflict resolution by means of negotiations. Thanks.